DNA convenant

There were two widows in the Malan laager after the disastrous battle at Italeni: our 3rd great-grandmother Anna Maria Klopper-Malan, and her sister-in-law, Hercules Malan’s wife, Anna Maria Breedt-Malan. Our 6-year old (2ndgreat-grandmother) Helena Malan and her siblings, including little two-year old Hercules, had lost their father. Maybethese circumstances caused…

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Lampen – Heystek part 15

   DNA on the Groot Trek: Night of Slaughter   Somehow word of the Retief delegation massacres filtered through to various English traders still in Dingane’s territory, causing a panicked exodus to the Port Natal harbor. Francis Owen, his family and three American missionaries made it safely to the Hambanathi…

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